Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Saturday, 2024.10.05 
To see victory as a curse and defeat as moral purification and salvation is to
combine the ancient idea of hubris with the Christian virtue of humility,
catharsis with apocalypse. That such a concept should have its greatest
resonance among the intelligentsia can be explained in part by the
intellectual's classical training but also by his inherently ambivalent stance
toward power.

		Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Culture of Defeat

2005.03.25

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